1873 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• July 10 – Paul Verlaine shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.^[1]

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems^[2]
• Robert Bridges, Poems by Robert Bridges (see also Poems 1879, 1880)^[2]
• Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers^[2]
• Edward Carpenter, Narcissus, and Other Poems^[2]
• Austin Dobson, Vignettes in Rhyme^[2]
• Dora Greenwell, Songs of Salvation^[2]
• William Morris, Love is Enough; or, The Freeing of Pharamond^[2]
• Emily Pfeiffer, Gerard's Monument, and Other Poems^[2]

United States

• Will Carleton, Farm Ballads^[3]
• William Dean Howells, Poems^[3]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath^[3]
• Bayard Taylor, Lars: A Pastoral of Norway^[3]

Works published in other languages

France

• Tristan Corbière, Les amours jaunes
• Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer ("A Season in Hell")
• Théodore de Banville, Trente-six ballades joyeuses, Paris: Lemerre; France^[4]
• Paul Verlaine:
  • Romances sans paroles^[5]
  • Art poétique, criticism^[5]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 9 – Hayim Nahman Bialik, חיים נחמן ביאליק (died 1934), Russian-born Hebrew poet
• January 7 – Charles Péguy (killed in action 1914), French poet and essayist
• February 26 – Tekkan Yosano, 与謝野 鉄幹, pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi (died 1935), Japanese late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano (surname: Yosano)
• March 28 – Gilbert E. Brooke (died 1936), French-born English poet and colonial medical officer
• April 12 – Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• April 25 – Walter De la Mare (died 1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist
• August 3 – Alexander Posey (drowned 1908), Native American poet, journalist, humorist and politician
• October 10 – George Cabot Lodge (died 1909) American
• December 7 – Willa Cather (died 1947), American novelist and poet
• December 11 – Tilly Aston (died 1947), Australian
• December 12 – Lola Ridge (died 1941), American
• December 29 – Ovid Densusianu ("Ervin") (died 1938), Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian, critic, academic and journalist
• Undated
  • George Clarke, Canadian
  • Clementine Krämer, née Cahnmann (died 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp), German poet and short-story writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 26 – Vladimir Benediktov (born 1807), Russian poet and translator
• May 9 – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (born 1821), American
• May 22 – Alessandro Manzoni (born 1785), Italian poet and novelist
• June 29 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto", "Datta" or "Dutta"), born Madhusudan Dutt (born 1824–1873), Indian, English-language poet and dramatist
• July 13 – Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", 71 (born 1801), English author and poet
• October 27 – Janet Hamilton (born 1795), Scottish poet
• December 24 – Rangga Warsita (born 1802), Javanese
• Undated
  • Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
  • Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (born 1843), Greek

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry

Notes

1. Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "10 July: Poet shoots poet". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. London: Icon. pp. 257–8. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
4. Web page "The Trente-six ballades joyeuses of Theodore de Banville", identified as page 328 and the first page of an article the web page references as "The Trente-six ballades joyeuses of Theodore de Banville, by Aaron Schaffer © 1922 The Johns Hopkins University Press." at the Jstor website, retrieved February 6, 2010
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications